ryaniksentrik Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 whys my shop so slow I seem to be running into a few probs with my shop taking a long time to load up This is from the front page to all items Any ideas why this is you can see it at http://www.iksentrik.co.uk/shop/ any sugestions and help would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idarcinard Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Hi, I guess it could be a whole host of things like your server etc. One thing that does speed things up is switching on gzip compression in the admin. I doubt it will completely solve your problem, but may help... Ida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Hi,I guess it could be a whole host of things like your server etc. One thing that does speed things up is switching on gzip compression in the admin. I doubt it will completely solve your problem, but may help... Ida. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm looking in admin for the gzip compression and cant see it can you point me in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 ah found it what should I set the compression level to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicpon Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 I have same problem my shop is running slow but its not cause by the network. How should i tweak my php and mysql configuration in order to get it working fast ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 it could be your server (are you on a shared server, this is one major problem), images, all kinds of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 ok ive uped my gzip compression re sized my button image size not sure if im on a shared server but before i start changing all my image sizes..... what should be the max size to make the enlarge image work its best cheers for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 do u have a link so we can see what the problem may be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 http://www.iksentrik.co.uk/shop/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicpon Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 I cant give you link cause my web is in local net but tomorrow i will try to move it to wan. My web is on designated server with only one purpose(just this website) p4 2.4ghz 512 MB RAM and T1. If i turn the gzip on it slows down but in different way. Without gzip it slows down everytime it gets to categories box(it waits there for 2 seconds) then on the other hand with gzip when click on link it waits right there for two seconds all the time. ANy ideas about this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niknakgroup Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 ok - two things which will have a pretty major effect. 1 - install an image thumbnailer contrib. This reduces the size of all your images, the big image is still there so people can see details on your products, but a small image also exists to give customers a quick look at what each item is. This is not the same as just putting different sizes onto your existing image, as when you do this the customers pc still has to download the entire original image and then resize it down. A thumbnail gives a smaller filesize image to download in the first place. 2. Go to your mysql and click your database. Go to "Operations" - now find "optimize tables" and click it. Do this regularly - it cleans up your tables and allows your site to refer to them quicker and therefore return results quicker. As for other things you can look at; if you have any scroll effect with text on your pages, ditch it. This tiny little effect can kill your page load times. Gzip - use it, set it to about 4 or 5. Look closely at your code. If your files have redundant code, first comment it out (by adding // to the start of the line) to see if your site still works without it. This now allows your server to grab the bits it actually needs from your files without getting unecessary bloat. There are loads of other tips and tricks, but as anyone who has been to my own site can see, I am definitely no expert in this field. Please note - if I have suggested a contrib above, it doesnt mean it will work! Most of the contribs are not ones I've used, but may be useful for your particular problem.... Have you tried a refined search? Chances are your problem has already been dealt with elsewhere on the forums..... if (stumped == true) { return(square_one($start_over) } else { $random_query = tep_fetch_answer($forum_query) } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 OK i'll try this again I'm trying to find a image thumbnailer program in the contributions section I'm new to this so rather than just say "Go to Contributions and get one" can someone actually be a little more precise and say "try This one" as I'm not a programer and its all greek to me I went and had a look at them myself and there's too many I finally picked one and downloaded to have it say to me Install Instructions: 1st and foremost: YOU MUST HAVE GD INSTALLED TO MAKE THIS WORK. Whats GD ?!?! Can anyone help :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 OK i'll try this again I'm trying to find a image thumbnailer program in the contributions section I'm new to this so rather than just say "Go to Contributions and get one" can someone actually be a little more precise and say "try This one" as I'm not a programer and its all greek to me I went and had a look at them myself and there's too many I finally picked one and downloaded to have it say to me Install Instructions: 1st and foremost: YOU MUST HAVE GD INSTALLED TO MAKE THIS WORK. Whats GD ?!?! Can anyone help :'( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> GD is a graphics module built into most PHP distributions. Go to the admin section of your shop, under Tools|Server Info will show all things installed with PHP there is a GD section, that will tell you if installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Ah cool the GD is enabled I'll give the Image thumbnailer a try now I'm sure i'll be back though:'( cheers again ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Just tried out "Thumbnail Generator" and didn't work Anyone out there have success with ANY Thumbnail Generator contribution could you let me know which one before the computer suffers :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I went to your shop. There was a delay of a few seconds until the shop started to load, but once it started it loaded really fast. Are you using javascript to pre-load images - as this will cause the initial slow down of page loading. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryaniksentrik Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Are you using javascript to pre-load images - as this will cause the initial slow down of page loading. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> not sure what you mean by this could you elaborate :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicpon Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 OK guys i was able to configure my dns in order to show you how is my store working. I have optimized the tables in db, enabled the gunzip curently on level 4 and there is no pics so no hughe amounts of data is loading. Please check out this link My Webpage1 its on t1 and we dont have much traffic at this time so its should be fast. Also, i have setup OSC on one of my shared servers with exact same db and its flying there check out this linkMy Webpage2. The second server is a little faster than the one i have here and it has 1GB of ram whereas the i have here has only 512 MB. This is not a big issue cause i can increase it to 1GB np. If i turn off gzip on my webpage2 it works moreless the same was as with gzip on- its very hard to notice a difference but if i turn it off on mywebpage1 what happens is every single time you click on smth it loads categories box header and then waits for 2 seconds and then loads the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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